Foreshadowing Trump

<p><strong>Foreshadowing</strong>: in books and film a hint—sometimes ominous—of events to come</p><p><strong><em>Foreshadowing Trump</em></strong> examines four novels and one short shory that pre-date—that foreshadow—Trump:</p><p>Herman Melville's last novel<em> The Confidence-man: His Masquerade</em> 1857 which one recent critic called "the Art of the Scam"; Mark Twain's short story "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" a story of greed and revenge; <em>It Can't Happen Here</em> by Sinclair Lewis published in 1935; George Orwell's <em>1984</em> published in 1949; and Philip Roth's <em>The Plot Against America</em> published in 2004.</p><p><em><strong>Foreshadowing Trump</strong> </em>also contains the complete Twain short story "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" and the fascinating backstory  to Twain's work.</p>